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Athens bus, trolley bus routes diverted due to vandalism

The Athens Urban Transport Organization has diverted several city bus and trolley bus routes away from the area in front of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) due to the repeated vandalism of vehicles.

The affected routes include trolley bus lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 15 and bus routes 022, 054, 224, 500, 622, 608, 035, A8, B12, G12 and A7.

Anti-state rebels in squabbles with motorcycle police at Patission Street

A policeman appears to have been injured from attacks by anti-state rebels at Patission street, near the Athens Center. The squabbles between the attackers and the DIAS motorcycle police took place near the Athens Polytechnic.

Private MEGA TV reported that following the attack, the rebels disappeared via Stournari Street.

Sex in the city of Athens: The red-light districts have moved (video)

Hookers and transvestites would line up around Syngrou Avenue or at the backstreets of the National Theater at Omonoia.  They’d enter luxury cars and chide young rookies going on joy rides. Then, suddenly the pulsating streets around Panteio, began to empty. Shops shut down, and unemployment caused young men looking for paid thrills to diminish. Then there was all that bad press about HIV.

Traffic diversions for Labor Day, Athens Half Marathon

Traffic police in Athens were expected to close off sections of the city's road network and divert traffic on Friday due to Labor Day rallies and events.

Traffic disruptions were expected around Syntagma Square, Klafthmonos Square and the National Archaeological Museum located on Patission Street, starting at 8 a.m.

Anti-state activists rally in central Athens — low-level incidents, vandalism

About 700 so-called anti-state activists protested in central Athens on Saturday against maximum security prisons, for the release of terrorist Savvas Xiros as well as in support of several inmates on a hunger strike.

Police forces discreetly followed the rally.

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